AGARTALA, Dec 7 (PTI): Tripura government's long-standing demand for setting up markets along the Indo-Bangla border is yet to be fulfilled despite both countries agreeing on the need to set them up years ago.
A proposal to set up the border markets or 'haats' in local language, was part of the Joint Declaration signed by India and Bangladesh during Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina's visit to Delhi in January this year.
Tripura's minister for commerce and industries Jiten Chowdhury regretted that though his government had sent a specific proposal to the Union ministry for trade and commerce, nothing moved.
"The concerned Ministry is yet to act on the state government proposal," he told the Assembly recently.
Government sources said that establishment of border markets had become all the more necessary after border fences came up between the two neighbours, practically ending the flourishing illegal trade.
